Section 250-RICR-70-00-2.5 - Rate of CompensationA. Payment statewide for fire vehicles used under the direction of a fire chief or senior officer in the extinguishment of a forest fire shall be for the full amount (100 percent) and at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per hour per vehicle. 1. A fire vehicle is defined as either a vehicle with a water tank having a capacity of at least one hundred twenty-five (125) gallons mounted on the body of the vehicle and with a pump capable of discharging water at a rate of at least twenty (20) gallons per minute, or a vehicle with a tank of at least one thousand (1,000) gallons capacity and capable of discharging water to another fire vehicle or to a portable water tank.2. Not accepted as fire vehicles are any other vehicles used by a fire department not meeting the above criteria; including, but not limited to, ladder trucks, rescue vehicles, ambulances, pick-up trucks, chief's cars, or all-terrain vehicles.B. Payments for expendable (and consumed) supplies such as wetting agents, fire retardants, and other fire extinguishing chemicals used on a fire will be reimbursed at one hundred percent (100%) of the cost provided however; that invoices to the fire department showing that said supplies were purchased prior to the date of the fire being billed accompany all such claims for reimbursement.C. Payment for out-of-state assistance in Rhode Island (and not recognized as compact aid under the provisions of the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact) will be for full cost and shall be made at the same rate per person per hour consistent with R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 2-11-3 and 2-12-6, and at the same rate per fire vehicle and/or expended supplies as specified in these regulations.D. A separate forest fire bill for out-of-state assistance will be completed by the respective Rhode Island fire chief requesting said assistance, using the standard billing form. Said fire chief will attach this bill to that for his/her fire department and include it as part of the total invoice for payment.250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-70-00-2.5